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• PhD in Folklore from Indiana University, Bloomington, Research interest includes: Folklore and Social Justice; Ecopoetics or Environmental Folklore, Resistance Culture; Rituals as Symbolic Performance; Women's Folklore Area of focus: Northeast &a...More

  PhD in Folklore from Indiana University, Bloomington, Research interest includes: Folklore and Social Justice; Ecopoetics or Environmental Folklore, Resistance Culture; Rituals as Symbolic Performance; Women's Folklore Area of focus: Northeast & East Africa Ethnic Identification: Oromo PUBLICATIONS Articles -“‘God Speak to Us’: Performing Power and Authority in Salale, Ethiopia,” Journal of African Cultural Studies, 26/3. -http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13696815.2014.901165 -"Great Man" or "Great Myth"? Meles Zenawi: Historic or Mythic Ideologue?" Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1&2, July 2013 -http://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=391204998 -"Salale Oromo Women’s Songs of Resistance (Oromia, Ethiopia)," International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Volume 7, Issue 3, (2014), pp.47-66. http://ijicst.cgpublisher.com/ Books Beyond Adversities (2010) The Hug (2011) Anan'yaa (1998; 2006) Decorous Decorum (2006) and few other publications on Resistance Poetry and Oromo folklore and Literature. Less

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